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The war for the White House is being waged on an unlikely battlefield -- Wikipedia. Mitt Romney's Wikipedia page alone has been edited hundreds of times since the Republican primaries began. The most-often edited topics? "Bain," the name of the compa...

Forget former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill's oft-repeated maxim, "all politics is local." In the 2012 race for the White House, all politics are social. People are posting political news, op-eds and their own opinions across their myriad social p...

Voters checking out a politician's website want a clean, easy-to-use interface that establishes an emotional connection with visitors and teaches them about the candidate -- not links asking them to contribute financially to a campaign. That's accord...

With Rick Santorum out of the race, political pundits are labeling Mitt Romney the presumptive Republican presidential nominee -- and both the Romney and Obama campaigns seem to agree, because they're lashing out at one another at campaign appearance...

Social media-savvy fans of politics are about to add a new set of Foursquare badges to their collection, thanks to NBC Politics. The badges come in three flavors: "Political wonk," "campaign advisor" and "chief of staff." Foursquare users have to fol...

It didn't take long on Wednesday afternoon, when Rick Santorum ended his campaign for the White House, for the story to go from “Santorum's out” to “Mitt Romney's in.” In fact, Romney saw a significant bump on Facebook Wednesday night. But even if Sa...

Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, has dropped out of the 2012 presidential race, but his campaign's impact on the social web lives on. Follow along as Mashable highlights the videos, memes and viral content brought on by Rick Santorum ...

If you signed up for email updates from any of the Republican presidential candidates, your inbox is probably getting bombarded by Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or Ron Paul. All of the candidate's emails have at least one thing in common:...

The Daily Show's Jon Stewart is fed up with President Barack Obama's constant tweeting, checking in and, most of all, his emails asking for donations. "Seriously, there are exiled Nigerian princes getting Obama campaign emails going, 'Ease up on the ...

The social media buzz surrounding a political candidate can sometimes predict election results, according to a new study from NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey company. NM Incite looked at four elections held during the 2010 midterm: two Senate races (in...

It's primary day in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C, as the four Republican candidates for president struggle for the 95 delegates up for grabs Tuesday evening. Mitt Romney is still in the delegate lead, with 572 according to The Wall Street ...

Has Rick Santorum finally fixed his "Google problem", as the candidate claims? Sort of. The campaign announced its triumph over a satirical site designed to redefine the candidate's last name during a Friday morning breakfast at Google's Washington, ...

Rick Santorum, one of the four remaining Republican candidates for president, is the latest victim of a "Klout Bomb." Klout is designed to measure a social media user's influence about different topics. Users with a lot of Klout can give more Klout (...

On the heels of a viral Etch A Sketch comment from one of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's senior advisers, the Amazon sales rank for the $11.50 Classic Etch A Sketch Magic Screen has increased 1,556% within 24 hours. "I think you hit ...

President Obama's online efforts during his 2008 bid for the White House revolutionized digital campaigns -- and if Nielsen's latest numbers are any indication, his team is working hard for a repeat in 2012. According to a recent Nielsen analysis, Pr...

An "Etch A Sketch" Romney campaign gaffe is spreading around the political web like wildfire. Eric Fehrnstrom, one of Mitt Romney's senior advisors, told CNN's "Starting Point" Wednesday morning that winning the Republican primary would allow his cam...

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney held his second Google+ Hangout on Tuesday, taking questions from supporters on a wide range of issues. Right off the bat, Romney was asked about how he would handle cybersecurity, digital intellectual pr...

It's primary day in Illinois, and the fight for delegates in the Land of Lincoln is shaping up to be an important moment in the race for the Republican nomination. The state has 69 delegates, 54 of which are up for grabs on Tuesday. Mitt Romney leads...

What happens when you combine Mitt Romney and an Eminem classic? YouTube viral gold, apparently. This video takes carefully cut edits of Romney and others and combines them into a cover of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady." The video, created by Austral...

President Obama may be trying to strike a name for himself as the "singing president," but Republican White House hopeful Rick Santorum has at least two vocalists in his corner: Camille and Haley Harris of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Together, the girls are "Fi...

If you've been following the battle for the Republican presidential nomination, you know one thing: delegates mean everything. But some states use complicated arithmetic to figure out which candidate won how many delegates, so it can be difficult to ...

Republican voters in Alabama and Mississippi are headed to the polls Tuesday to pick their preferred candidate to go up against President Obama in November. Voters in Hawaii are off to caucus for their favored politician as well. As has been the case...

Super Tuesday, one of the most crucial delegate-gaining days during the race for the Republican presidential nomination, inspired more than 530,000 comments across the social web. (This writer contributed to at least a handful of them!) Rick Santorum...

Here's something we haven't seen done with Facebook Timeline before: political opposition research. Newt Gingrich launched a new Timeline page called the "Romney Record" Wednesday morning, fresh off the heels of Super Tuesday. The idea? To use Timeli...

Today is Super Tuesday in the U.S., the day when the most delegates are up for grabs in a single 24-hour period during the entirety of the Republican presidential primary. Naturally, social media is abuzz with Super Tuesday tweets, pictures and video...

Today is Super Tuesday, the day when the most delegates are up for grabs in a single 24-hour period throughout the race to become the Republican presidential nominee. For weeks, Americans have been talking about the candidates on Facebook, Twitter, Y...

Facebook Timeline just got the presidential seal of approval: Barack Obama enabled the new profile design Thursday morning. Visitors to Obama's Timeline are greeted with a smiling photo of the president alongside his cover photo, a graph often shared...

It's primary day in America, folks: citizens in Michigan and Arizona are headed to the polls Tuesday to vote for their preferred Republican candidate to go up against President Obama in November. As we've seen in the past, the social web is aflame wi...

Buddy Roemer, former governor of Louisiana, wants to be the Internet's first candidate for U.S. president. Roemer was once aiming to become the Republican nominee for president, but he wasn't included in any of the mainstream primary debates or media...

Good news, tablet-owning politics junkies! The Washington Post has released a brand-new interactive iPad app that's chock full of graphs, polling data, video and up-to-the-second news from the campaign trail. The "WP Politics" app collects the newspa...

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is getting more social media attention than any other Republican presidential contender, according to a Crimson Hexagon analysis for MSNBC. Crimson Hexagon looked at 1.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in F...

The microphone is in your hand, and it's your chance to ask the 2012 Republican presidential candidates any question. What would you ask? This is the core philosophy behind "The Citizens Agenda," a collaboration between the Guardian US and New York U...

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